When I was younger, we had to stand outside in the cold for hours to buy World Series tickets. Now, thanks to the miracle of the Internet, we can buy them online from the comfort of our pajamas. At least, that was the theory when the Colorado Rockies decided to offer World Series ticket online only. A nice idea, if you're prepared for it. The company that was serving up the tickets for the Rockies had an "unspecified problem" and its servers are offline. In the 90 minutes after the sale started, 8.5 million connection attempts were made for 60,000 tickets. (Photo by AP/Ed Andrieski)